I went away, and then I came back

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I bet you didn’t even know I was gone!  You know, in theory I like the idea of traveling, and I was thrilled to spend time with my sister and her family, but Oof.  I’m hoping that by tomorrow I’ll be recovered and ready to be productive. The trip was sort of last minute — [...]

New knitting

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In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, I chose to start a new project, rather than do something practical (i.e. finish an existing project…) The yarn is Stars and Stripes Forever by The Painted Tiger.  Isn’t it awesome?  Self-striping yarn is really cool.  I’m doing a pretty simply ripple type pattern because I [...]

Socks!

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Hey!  I just finished my socks! The pattern is Pink Ribbon Socks by Laura Spradlin.  If I’d had pink yarn, I would have made them pink, but I only had purple. The main casualty of this particular project was a set of circular needles: I’m not entirely sure what happened.  I was working on these in [...]

June 27, Taking a break

Birthday party this afternoon, the only time we could get everyone together to celebrate the boys birthday.  They’ll be 11 this week!  Crazy.  After all the fun lately, I’m just wiped out. I’m going to take a blogging break for awhile.  We’re going on vacation, and I’ll have zero Internet access.  I was trying to [...]

June 26, What else…baseball…

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The boys got invited to join the A team for a tournament today (normally they play on the B team, but the coach needed some extra players for potential subs).  They knew going in that they’d mostly be on the bench, but… It was pretty cool when the announcer said “Now pitching, Earley.  And in [...]

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